Exercise affects your hormones — including ‘happy hormones’ such as dopamine — and provides energy and helps you feel positive. Having energy and being positive makes you want to have sex. Plus, cardio encourages blood circulation. This means working out can help blood flow to your genital region — which is a key factor to sexual response.

Since the mind and body are connected, how you move and what you do impacts how you think and feel, Trotter explained to Global News. When you work out and feel good, you’ll experience other positive bodily reactions.

“Exercise helps build self-esteem, which makes you want to have sex,” Trotter said. “Once you have a positive relationship with yourself, you can have a positive relationship with an intimate partner.”

And what better reward for a long run than a little romp in the sack?

Originally published at GLOBALNEWS